
Jessa Crispin
Writer at Freelance
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1 month ago |
thebaffler.com | Ranbir Sidhu |Astra Taylor |Quinn Slobodian |Jessa Crispin
A year ago, I took a friend visiting from California to a casual mixer at a rooftop bar in Athens, Greece, where I live. The mixer was arranged by the local chapter of Democrats Abroad, a get-out-the-vote organization for expat Americans in Europe. With drinks in hand and the sun setting on the Parthenon in the distance, we pushed ourselves into the knot of Americans at the far end of the patio.
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1 month ago |
harpers.org | Jessa Crispin
From What Is Wrong with Men, a study of how portrayals of the American man have changed in films starring Michael Douglas, which will be published next month by Pantheon.
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2 months ago |
m.independent.ie | Jessa Crispin
Show Don’t Tell features an unsurprising procession of Ally McBeal-ish protagonists who just want to do their bestIt’s never comfortable when a novelist starts to have a shtick. Uncomfortable, for obvious reasons, for the critic, and too comfortable, to the point of being cosy, for the reader. You know before you open the book who the characters will be; the beats and rhythm of the plot; how everything will be wrapped up in the end. It’ll all be adequate, but not in the slightest challenging.
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2 months ago |
telegraph.co.uk | Jessa Crispin |Curtis Sittenfeld
It’s never comfortable when a novelist starts to have a shtick. Uncomfortable, for obvious reasons, for the critic, and too comfortable, to the point of being cosy, for the reader. You know before you open the book who the characters will be; the beats and rhythm of the plot; how everything will be wrapped up in the end. It’ll all be adequate, but not in the slightest challenging. It will satisfy you like a big bowl of spaghetti.
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Feb 5, 2025 |
telegraph.co.uk | Jessa Crispin
There’s a trick some non-fiction writers pull, in order to demonstrate to the reader, right off the bat, that they know a lot of stuff. It’s simple: they list it like a human Wikipedia page.
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